Technip awarded ethylene cracker technology license

Technip has announced that it has entered into a contract to supply its proprietary ethylene technology and Process Design Package (PDP) to PTTGC America LLC (PTTGCA), a subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical, Thailand’s largest integrated petrochemical and refining company, for a 1000 KTA grassroots ethane cracker to be located in Belmont County, Ohio, US.

The plant, which will use low cost ethane from the region’s shale deposits, will be part of a major shale-based petrochemical complex to be built by PTTGCA, which is expected to make a final investment decision in 2016 or 2017.

The project will be executed by Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas, US. Stan Knez, President, Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology, said: “As the largest ethylene licensor and contractor, Technip is pleased to bring its proven ethane cracking and process technologies and experience to this cracker, which is part of PTTGCA’s first worldscale petrochemical complex outside of Thailand.”